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Encyclopedia Britannica



SEGESVAR (Ger. Schdssburg)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 582 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SEGESVAR (Ger. Schdssburg) , a town of
Hungary
 , in Transylvania, the
capital
  of the county of Nagy-KUullo, 126 m. S.E. of Koloszvar by rail. Pop. (1900) 10,857. Amongst the
principal
  buildings are a
Gothic
  church of the 15th century, the town and county
hall
 , a German gymnasium with a good collection of antiquities, and the municipal museum. In front of the county
hall
  is a bronze statue of the Hungarian poet Alexander Petofi (1823-1849), erected in 1897. Segesvb.r has a good woollen and linen
trade
 , as well as exports of wine and fruit.
Segesvar was founded by Saxon colonists at the end of the-
SEGOVIA
 
12th century; its Latin name was Castrum Sex. Here, on the 31st of July 1849, the Hungarian army under Bern was defeated by the overwhelming numbers of the Russian General Luders. Petofi is generally believed to have met his end in this battle.


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